Carlo Allioni (23 September 1728 in

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– 30 July 1804 in Turin) was an Italian

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and professor of botany at the

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. His most important work was ''Flora Pedemontana, sive enumeratio methodica stirpium indigenarum Pedemontii'' 1755, a study of the plant world in

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, in which he listed 2813 species of plants, of which 237 were previously unknown. In 1766, he published the ''Manipulus Insectorum Tauriniensium''.

Career

In April, 1758 he was elected a

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. He was appointed extraordinary professor of botany at the University of Turin in 1760 and was also the director of the

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. The journal ''Allionia: bollettino dell' istituto ed orto botanico dell' università di Torino'' is named after him. First

Pehr Löfling Pehr Löfling (31 January 1729 – 22 February 1756) was a Swedish botanist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus. Biography Löfling was born in Tolvfors Bruk, Gävle, Sweden. He studied at the University of Uppsala where he attended courses taugh ...

and then

Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming o ...

named the New World herb genus '' Allionia'' (Nyctaginaceae) after Allioni.

Per Axel Rydberg Per Axel Rydberg (July 6, 1860 – July 25, 1931) was a Swedish-born, American botanist who was the first curator of the New York Botanical Garden Herbarium. Biography Per Axel Rydberg was born in Odh, Västergötland, Sweden and emigrated to ...

named the genus ''Allioniella'' (now a

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for '' Mirabilis''), after him. Also named after him are: * ''

Arabis allionii ''Arabis allionii'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae, native to the mountains of central and southern Europe and southern Turkey. The Royal Horticultural Society The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), founded in 1804 ...

'' * '' Jovibarba allioni'' * '' Primula allioni'' * '' Veronica allionii''

Selected works

*''Flora Pedemontana, sive, Enumeratio methodica stirpium indigenarum Pedemontii'', Turin, 1755. * Stirpium praecipuarum litoris et agri Nicaensis, Turin, 1755. ** *''Auctarium ad floram Pedemontanam cum notis et emendationibus'' (1789) *''Stirpium praecipuarum littoris et agri Nicaeensis Enumeratio methodica cum Elencho aliquot anirnalium ejusdem maris'' (1757)

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Allioni 1728 births 1804 deaths People from the Kingdom of Sardinia Physicians from Turin 18th-century Italian botanists Italian entomologists Fellows of the Royal Society Academic staff of the University of Turin Scientists from Turin Members of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities

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